Connected Sites

Incense Route of the Negev: Towns that prospered because of the profitable trade in frankincense (and myrrh) from south Arabia to the Mediterranean, which flourished from the 3rd century BC until the 2nd century AD

Land of Frankincense: Site holds frankincense trees and the remains of a caravan oasis, which were crucial to the medieval incense trade

Petra: Strategical position at a point where the Incense Route from Arabia to Damascus was crossed by the overland route from India to Egypt

Socotra Archipelago: Socotra had become ?of major importance as a staging-post in the incense trade? by the middle of the first millennium BCE